Amber Brown Is Green with Envy

84 Pages·2003·2.59 MB·English

by  Danziger Paula

AMBER BROWN
IS GREEN WITH ENVY
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Amber Brown Goes Fourth
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Amber Brown Sees Red
Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue
I, Amber Brown
Paula Danziger
AMBER BROWN
IS GREEN WITH ENVY
Illustrated by Tony Ross
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK
Text copyright © 2003 by Paula Danziger.
Illustrations copyright © 2003 by Tony Ross.
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Designed by Gina DiMassi. Text set in Bembo.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Danziger, Paula, 1944-Amber Brown is green with envy / Paula Danziger;
illustrated by Tony Ross. p. cm. Summary: Fourth-grader Amber Brown
must make some important decisions when her mother and Max
move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together,
while her father makes some bad choices of his own.
[1. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Mothers and daughters—Fiction.
3. Divorce—Fiction. 4. Custody of children—Fiction.
5. Moving, Household—Fiction. 6. Family life—New Jersey—Fiction.]
I. Ross, Tony, ill. II. Title. PZ7.D2394Ip 2003 [Fic]—dc21 2003000127
ISBN: 978-1-101-65719-5
To Sarah Greene,
A Most Colorful Friend…….
and because she is English, she is also
A Most Colourful Friend!

Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter
One
I, Amber Brown, have had enough. “Dylan Marshall, you are driving me crazy.”
Dylan looks at me and smiles. Then he pretends to be guiding a steering
wheel. “Vrroooooom. Vrooooooooom. Zoom.”
His older sister, Polly, looks up from the book she is reading. “Dylan, you
are so immature.”
“Thank you.” He bows to her.
She sighs and goes back to her book.
Before my dad rented the downstairs half of their house, I used to think that
Dylan was one of the BIG kids, a sixth grader.
Now I think that he’s just a BIG doofus.
Dylan pretends to drive into his younger sister, Savannah.
She ignores him.
“Road pizza,” he yells, pretending to run over their cat, Mewkiss Membrain.
“I’m going downstairs,” I announce.
“You’re supposed to stay up here until THE DADS come back from getting
the groceries,” Polly reminds me.
I sit down and look at a magazine, thinking about how my life has changed
in the last few months.
THE DADS…my dad and their dad…if grown-ups can be best friends, I
think that’s what they are becoming.
My dad was not happy when he moved back from France.
I, Amber Brown, think that he wanted to get back with my mom, but it’s too
late…she’s going to marry Max.
Dylan comes over and makes an armpit noise at me. “I’m bored.”
“You’re boring.” I smile at him.
“Thank you.” He makes a bow.
Actually, I, Amber Brown, think that Dylan can be fun. But not today.